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by aneesh 18y ago
First, I think the News.YC crowd is least likely to be swayed by MS' marketing. Second, I don't think this is "doing Microsoft's marketing". You'll probably find a fair number of critical comments too.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's ironic. Just months after a much publicized retirement that emphasized "Microsoft after Gates", Microsoft wants to build some brand. And who do they bring back? Is there Microsoft beyond Gates? More broadly, what does it take for a
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by aneesh 18y ago
Microsoft has much bigger problems than Vista. Their stronghold on the OS market is strong enough that they can probably stand 1 bad release. Only if Windows 7 screws up will they have real problems in terms of market share & bottom l
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by aneesh 18y ago
Facebook finances: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/facebook-finances-leake... 2008 cash flow is supposed to be minus $150mm.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's not a $15B valuation. Microsoft didn't invest all $240 million for the 1.6% stake. Some fraction of that money was for the advertising deal that Microsoft got.
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by aneesh 18y ago
He's a straight talker, no BS. He knows his worth, but isn't arrogant about it. That's a recipe for being well-liked and respected.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Recorded music badly needs a new business model, and this seems like it might fit the bill. Congrats.
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280879
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "All these fake identity scams fall through as soon as you have to show a photograph of yourself." Because no one's ever used a fake photo ID to, say, get into a bar.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Great - that clarifies it. End of story. Now can we clear some room on the HN front page for some real news ;)
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by aneesh 18y ago
yourfavoritestartup.com/jobs
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yes. ars technica reviewed IE8: "Running a tab in its own process allows that tab to crash (for any reason) without disrupting any other tab." http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080731-ie8-beta-2-get...
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by aneesh 18y ago
For some of these (Xobni, Loopt, perhaps RescueTime, and others), page views aren't a good metric to measure popularity.
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Microsoft to drop $486 million for European shopping site(news.cnet.com)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
+1 for that. You can spend practically infinite time reading interesting stuff on the internet. Take some time and do something productive. I promise you won't be missing anything by spending a couple days away from HN, etc.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Because Sarah Lacy didn't write the original article. A guest poster hiding behind the name "Paisano" wrote it.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's not just about how good the site is, or what features they have. There are huge network effects. If you're a buyer, you want to go where there are a lot of sellers. And vice versa. And Craigslist has that. If anyone wants to beco
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Gmail Account Hacking Tool(hungry-hackers.com)
13 points by aneesh 18y ago|5 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
You sorta missed the point. Kim never gave a single password out. The "security questions" on one of her accounts allowed access to her account by anyone who could answer them. The weakness was largely her college's fault for having such
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by aneesh 18y ago
Exactly. The collaborative filtering technology & algorithms is the easy part. The hard part is getting mountains of good data to apply it to. And by good, I mean monetizeable. That's what Amazon and Netflix have done. They should
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by aneesh 18y ago
If you have paying customers, how did you find them? And how are you planning to get more?
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by aneesh 18y ago
No, the url is different, which is why it got past the dupe-detection. The original post's url is actually ( http://www.clapper.org/bmc/blog/id/75 ), which just redirects to the current post's url. Same content, different url. But yeah, it
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Voting Machines(xkcd.com)
32 points by aneesh 18y ago|23 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
That's what I meant. There are actually more Yahoo! accounts and Live accounts than GMail accounts.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Some time ago, I heard Microsoft was working on non-linear PowerPoint presentations, where you wouldn't have to go from one slide to the next. As someone who has to give presentations with flowcharts & architecture diagrams, I'm impres
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PowerPoint Plugin Adds a Spatial Dimension to Presentations(techcrunch.com)
2 points by aneesh 18y ago|2 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
It'll take a lot to beat eBay (who owns PayPal) in this space. > "key(s) seem like they might be around millions of users with accounts & easy, frictionless interface" Fwiw, Yahoo & Microsoft both have way more users than Google
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by aneesh 18y ago
Aren't most startups "the underdog" too? There is something exciting about the underdog, whether in sports, business, or life. Most of us probably became fans of Google way back when it was the underdog.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Because then PG wouldn't have built Viaweb. He certainly wasn't building it for himself.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Take a look at Kosmix.com Ignoring relevance for a sec, which display of results looks better? Kosmix by a mile. I think that's what Ballmer means when he says he wants to move beyond 10 blue links. Amidst the aura of "FAIL", one nice th

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